Oh Damn...
If you like southern soul, then you already know that Memphis-based label Hi Records was pretty much the gold standard for deep soul cuts - including Al Green, O.V. Wright, Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson and so many more. For those hip hop heads, you probably know a lot of these records were the foundation for a ton of Wu-Tang mastermind RZA's samples (if you look at the track listing from the Shaolin Soul series, more than 50% came from either Hi or Stax).
So the big news [via Billboard] is that the label Fat Possum has just gotten the publishing rights for the whole Hi catalog...
Of course Al Green's Greatest Hits have never gone out of print, but there is a ton of amazing material in that catalog that hasn't seen the light of day in a long long time, and hopefully
Fat Possum (who have released great albums from artists like Junior Kimbrough and King Khan) will do it right and bring back some of that lost goodness...if nothing else it will save me the time of having to rip all of my 45s into digital format if I can just pick them up online somewhere...
Take a listen:
Is It Because Im Black, - Syl Johnson
Plus, since it got a mention, here's how RZA flipped the track on The W:
Hollow Bones - Wu-Tang Clan
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